Help with Easy File sharing using Filezilla

[jolo]

I would greatly appreciate your help with this.

I am not all that creative with Filezilla, and I would like and appreciate your creativity and expertise.
If anyone thinks that there is a better way to accomplish my task, please let me know.
All questions deal with using Windows 7 clients.

• I have Internet area that I would like to share with a friend.
• My friend is not experienced in using FTP and Filezilla and I would like to make this easy for him.
• I would like for him to install Filezilla on his Win 7 PC.
• I want it to be configured(pre-configured if possible),
  where the site manager would have the configuration that would open a specified folder on my Internet area.
• I don't know if this is possible, but it would be even easier,
  if I can move the pre-configured Site Manager entry to a icon on his desktop that he can click. It would then open Fillezilla,
  as well as open the Internet folder that is configured in Site Manager.
• After than, he would be able to drag and crop, download and upload whatever he wants to in the provided folder.

I hope you understand what I am trying to do. Make Internet sharing, very easy, as well as limiting what my friend can see.
Thank you in advance for sharing your time, patience and expertise.

Jon T.

[boco]

It is possible, take a look at ./docs/fzdefaults.xml.example in the FZ program directory. The desktop shortcut is also possible, using a custom command line (http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Comma ... 8Client%29).

Here's the catch: You'd need to customize and re-package the installer. Additionally, if you distribute this to even one other person you need to make your changed files & sources available under the GPL, too.

[jolo]

It is possible, take a look at ./docs/fzdefaults.xml.example in the FZ program directory. The desktop shortcut is also possible, using a custom command line (http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Comma ... 8Client%29).

Here's the catch: You'd need to customize and re-package the installer. Additionally, if you distribute this to even one other person you need to make your changed files & sources available under the GPL, too.

I apologize for my ignorance about Filezilla.

• I exported the Site Manager entry that I want to have loaded on.
  I saw that the export created an .xml file that I don't know what to do with.
  I looked at the Filezilla FTP Client folder and I could not identify any File Manager entries/XML files.
  I figured that the simplest way would be to find the Site Manager entry that opens up the FTP web folder that I want to share with my friend.
  Then after he installs Filezilla on his computer, then I could add the file that contains the Site Manager entry.
  Unfortunately, I cannot find any type of configuration file where this information is contained.

I just don't know what to do except for manually entering the Site Manager entry.

Any ideas ??

Thanks for your time and expertise.

Jon T.

[audiopro]

Would this be used for storage or are the uploaded files to be used server side?
If just for storage, a subdomain on your own domain ie. mymate.example.com would work better and you wouldn't have to worry about him having access to your stuff.

[botg]

On most platforms all settings and sites are stored in the ~/.filezilla directory, with the exception of the exotic Windows platform where it is %APPDATA%/FileZilla

[boco]

The XML file you get when exporting contains the <Server></Server> block for the Site Manager entry. If you insert that block into the Servers section inside fzdefaults.xml the entry will appear as a ''Predefined site'' that cannot be changed.